"My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" art said to be too hot for Wal-Mart

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Kanye West arrives at the 9th Annual BET Awards on Sunday, June 28, 2009, in Los Angeles.

Updated at 2:19 PM CST on Thursday, Oct 21, 2010

Hip-hop star Kanye West has cried foul, and possibly wolf, over alleged censorship.

The “Runaway” singer unleashed a fusillade of tweets Sunday alleging that the powers that be had nixed a painting he’d selected to grace the cover of his upcoming “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.”

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“Yoooo they banned my album cover!!!!!” West tweeted shortly before posting the offending image, a naked Kanye-esque creature apparently engaged in a sex act with a female “phoenix.” West further described the representation: “a monster with no arms and a polka dot tail and wings.”

“Banned in the USA!!! They don't want me chilling on the couch with my phoenix!” he tweeted. “In the 70s album covers had actual nudity... It's so funny that people forget that... Everything has been so commercialized now.”

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Turns out the “Gold Digger” rapper may have signed off on the decision.